Refrakt is a Berlin-based artist collective formed by Alexander Govoni and Carla
Streckwall in 2014. They have been working on transmedia projects in mixed realities at the intersections of art, design, technology and models of perception. In 2015 the duo developed the Augmented Reality App Refrakt in collaboration with Michael Schröder and has been working together with him ever since, creating installations that connect the gallery space with a digital reality.
Augmented Reality became their main focus over the past couple of years,
both in applied and conceptual projects; In a digital society, where technology
increasingly starts to shape our perception and behaviour in everyday life, their
work focuses on the nature of the medium itself. With Augmented Reality, the
user can experience art in a very new way through his or her own device that
already connects to this new digital reality in everyday routines.
Born in 1988 in Vienna, Alexander Govoni studied visual communication
at New Design University in Austria and Berlin University of the Arts, finishing
his studies with a Master of Arts in 2013. Working as a freelance designer ever
since, he completed the Meisterschüler programme at University of the Arts Berlin
in collaboration with Carla Streckwall in 2015.
Carla was born in Berlin in 1987 and studied visual communication at Berlin
University of the Arts and the Cooper Union, New York, where she started with
her first exhibition in new media art in 2013. She has been working as designer
and artist and teached as assistant professor at Burg Giebichenstein University
for art and design Halle from 2015–2017.
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